“What Will My Generation Do for the ERA?”
Devon Hartsough, Alice Paul Institute Girls Advisory Council

12:30-1:45pm

Lunch Session: (on your own)

1:45-3:15pm

Panel #2: The ERA and Its Opposition
Chaired by Jeffrey Meriwether, Roger Williams University

“Gloria Steinem of the Right: The Visual Politics of Phyllis Schlafly”
Helis Sikk, The College of William and Mary

“The Power of the Positive Woman” Phyllis Schlafly’s Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment”
Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen

“Eliza Paschall’s Conversion: One Woman’s Movement from NOW to STOP ERA”
Robin Morris, Agnes Scott College

“Theresa Hicks vs. ‘Politicking on Government Time:’ Fighting the Equal Rights Amendment though Opposition to the Commission on the Status of Women”
Michele Grigsby Coffey, University of South Carolina

3:15-3:30pm

Coffee Break

3:30-5:20pm

Film Screening of Makers, hosted by Amy Richards, with Q & A to follow

Field House:

5:30-6:45pm

Keynote Dinner

7-8:30pm

Keynote Address: Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner

8:30pm

Book Signing, Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner

Saturday, November 16

Registration: School of Law Atrium, 9am-3pm

Law School Appellate Courtroom:

8:45-10:15am

Panel #3: What is Gained With an ERA?
Chaired by Rosemary Nossiff, Marymount Manhattan College

“Development and Philosophy of the Pregnancy Help Movement in the U.S.”
Sara Matthiesen, Brown University

“Is Title IX Enough?”
Carney Maley, University of Massachusetts, Boston

“The Equal Rights Amendment and the LGBTQ: The Women the ERA Will Not Protect”
Gregory Bagnall, University of Rhode Island

“Ratification of the ERA and Voting for Female Candidates: Is There a Connection”
June Sager Speakman, Roger Williams University

“The Equal Rights Amendment: A Comparative Law Perspective—What Can the United States Learn from the Rest of the World?”
Hillel Sommer, Radzyner Law School, Herzlia
Meital Pinto, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa